205 rear sus 'fixing'

[will]

I've a winter beater pug 205 and have decided that rake really does not suit it. With a Dimmer kit and carlos fandango rims then maybe it would work but in povo spec on 13 inch steels it's not particularly a good look.

I've 'fixed' the front suspension in time honoured skin flint style though the back is a springy bar set up so I'm led to believe and needs the arms off and moving a spline or 2.

Any tips or advice on what to hit/not to hit would be great. Also a rough guide to how much difference a spline makes would be good too.

[ChasR]

This all depends on how seized the bits are on the beam. What I can recommend is not to follow certain videos on Youtube unless you wish to look forward to the prospect of a potentially scrap rear beam.

However, (if Welshpug doesn't mind me showing his guide), here is quite a comprehensive way of tackling it .

www.306gti6.com/forum/showthread.php?id=80349&page=1

[rodney]

[ChasR]

It was that video I was referring to not use .

[will]

Many thanks.
That welshpug guide looks a goodun, I'd had a search though not found anything half as good as that. It looks like one of those jobs that could be really simple or a royal PITA depending on the condition of the beam.

[swordfish210]

If you were closer I would do it for you, it's a pretty easy job with the right tools.

FYI beating the arms off and adjusting it by the splines is the retarded way of doing it and just causes more problems. The best way to do it is to remove the bars a side at a time and them adjust the arm height.

[will]

Cheers for the offer I was born in Chippenham though my folks moved to the smoke to find work and somewhere to live when I was still in nappies.

Still not got round to doing this yet, that's the downside to having loads of vehicles. Got 4 cars a van, 4 bikes and a sidecar that need attention at the minute and that's discounting the long term projects

I shall defo be pulling it all apart and lathering with grease to save future woes. From experience often it doesn't sit right first try and will probably need further tweaking so it makes sense to make it easier next time.

[Siert]

I used the guide on 205gtidrivers.com and it was completely doable. In my case the trailing arm pins had already eaten all there way through the bearings, and then started grinding out the inside of the beam tube. That was thus not salvageable, but I bought a second axle in need of refurbishment for little money and used the two best trailing arm pins to create one good axle.

There's a guy called Andy on 309ownersclub.com (I think he's also on the other Peugeot forums) that does axle refurbishment as a service.